Poetry and translation

• Mealy Bloom (Cambridge: Mountain, 2012) [includes a reprint of Transactions Grotesques]
• Akhmatova (Enfield: Perdika, 2007)
• Transactions Grotesques (Cambridge: Barque, 2002)

Academic books

• Poetic Language: Theory and Practice from the Renaissance to the Present (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012)
• Pope and Berkeley: The Language of Poetry and Philosophy (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2005)

What a waste

 

of peanut brittle

the way it's used

to house tree stumps

in the streets

 

of the old

thin bacon marking

a turning reservation

 

of things giant

like the holy

icing ball furniture

sculpture near galleries

no figure now

comestibles are public

of milled potato

for rebuilding parliaments

 

enterprise requires tools

not many have

for reducing iterable

constituents to paste

so much adheres

to the vents

under the blade

or the fingers

 

putty is thrown

into its chamber

of the room

given volumes contain

 

of the figure

precise humidities record

the exact moment

those words spoken

achieve certain frequencies

 

of intromission

and expression

equating to what

is being said

then whole people

start to make

paste themselves

though ill timed

well resourced people

you want next door

as a condition

 

of any freight

that feeling that

emotion the carrier

needs transported but

boxes are wasted

packing so much

air that doesn't

even address impact

but why anyway

tamp sweet protein

to mask roots

saltpetre road paint

or

address to change